Li keng wong biography of martin

Good Fortune: My Journey to Gold Mountain, published by Peachtree Publishers, is a memoir of Li Keng Wong. It is written for ages 8-12 to explain what it was like for her and her family to immigrate from China to America. It is not an easy subject matter to deal with, nor is it a difficult read.

Good Fortune: My Journey to Gold Mountain by Li Keng Wong

Her family immigrated over in 1933, during the Great Depression, and when the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was in effect, making it difficult for the Chinese to enter into the country. In fact, when the Gee family came over, they had to spend time within a compound on Angel Island (near San Francisco) for questioning before being allowed to truly live on U.S.

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Li Keng describes how much she hated the compound, how glad she was to be a family living in Chinatown, and how difficult life was in America during the Great Depression. She chronicles her family’s growth, successes and failures, and how they became citizens (by living in the